122. Internal Meaning of Lamentations, Chapter 4

1-3 Holy truths and goods turned into falsities, (3, 4)

4 so that there is a lack of all of them. (3)

5-8 Their spiritual things have become infernal. (3)

9-10 Affections of truth have become cupidities of falsity. (3)

11 They were against the Lord. (3, 4)

12-14 They falsified the truths of the Word. (3)

15 It was impure. (3)

16-17 The Word was rejected owing to their own intelligence. (3, 11)

18-19 Nothing of the church was left, and therefore came their destruction. (3)

20 The Lord was rejected. (9)

21-22 The external of the church was also vastated. (3)